Just wanted to say that Web Search with selection is absolutely superb

[nikivi]

Probably won't add anything to the discussion but recently I mapped a lot of keys with karabiner to searching selected text for different services. These services, to be exact : 

 

 

 

Searching by Google can be done from System Preferences already :

 

 

With Karabiner I can then map these hotkeys to actually nice human reachable keys. I can select text and hold a + space to make google search on it. Hold f and press space to make wiki search on it, g + space to search google images and so on. It is incredibly fast. 

 

I also have a ton of file filters now that Karabiner allows me to map things to well placed 'hotkeys'.

 

 

 

 

For a lot of people file filters may not be a new thing but I hope this post inspires some people to set up some file and web filters of their own. 

 

Also recently one interesting project was open sourced (https://github.com/nathancahill/anycomplete). I now use it all the time to try and correct some words that I often have difficulty typing : 

 

 

I am curious if anyone here also uses web searches with selection? I think they are really really useful.

 

 

Edited November 30, 2016 by nikivi